Cantor: Foley, Johnson burned Long Island

It's bad enough that Long Island Democratic Sens. Craig Johnson and Brian Foley voted in lockstep with their New York City colleagues to insure that Long Island got shortchanged in the recent budget.
Now the duo insults our intelligence by putting on this false impression that they are fighting for the region by rolling out a ...

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Senator Craig Johnson and newly elected Senator Brian Foley have shown their true colors… protect themselves and the public be damned. Hopefully the electorate will remember these two when they return to the poles in their next re- election cycle Democrats and Republicans alike are in office to promote themselves. We the taxpayers must wake up and take an active role in the electorial process. If the one we elected does not support the things we elected them for and which are evidently important to us … throw them out.As a former registered republican and now independent ,I am fed up with every one of them and will vote to throw them out at my first opportunity
My name is **** Dunne are you listening?

When you have a $15 billion deficit the pain has to be spread across the board. What was the Long Island solution to the state budget crises? There was none coming from responsible organizations except don’t touch my programs. So now it’s Foley and Johnson’s fault. Being an elected official means you have to take some tough votes. Cheap shots are easy.

It is increasingly clear all sitting members of Congress must go. Dems, Repblicans and in-between. Forget the myth of Green House Gases being toxic rather stop the immediate danger of ‘White House Gases’ produced by both Houses and Washington burning up our patience, our money, our rights, our respect and their responsibilities! They need to feel uneasy, un-comfortable just as we are when we go to work. Bad performance and your out! Let’s remind them, all of them, ‘we the people’ are their employers! And as Donald Trump would say, ‘YOU’RE FIRED’.

This MTA deal makes me sick. Foley, just like most politicians, doesn’t get it. His constituency has been placed on the back burner so he can politically please the higher ups in Albany. Unfortunately there is no planning or foresight with any of our politicians today. They never plan for future events they only react when problems surface. Senator Schumer does the same thing. If I hear one more time that a politician has to make the tough decisions I will throw up. The tough decisions are to cut taxes and reduce spending. The only local politician willing to do this is Steve Levy. To place a payroll tax on businesses and school systems especially, during a recession, will only make matters worse on Long Island. This is an incentive to cut jobs not add them. Small businesses, to survive, will start paying people off the books to avoid taxes. The state which is in deep fiscal crisis will never reimburse schools for this tax. That is why they are taxing them because schools will have to pass it along to taxpayers oe the state will say we can only afford to reimburse for MTA bailout and we will have to cut school allocations to do that. School taxes will continue to rise because of it. Poor leadership? There is no leadership and Foley is just another political crewman directing the ship to hit the shoreline. Incresed business expense will be passed to taxpayers as well in the form of higher prices. They think people are stupid! Our system is a mess and, like me, many people feel they can’t effect any change, they just continue to eat tax increase after tax increase. Mr. Foley, I’m sorry but like most politicians you have shown yourself to be useless!!

Senator Brain Foley-
I emailed you a month ago about a unfair tax burden my goverment has layed on me. I first emailed Senator Sanard about my problem who then informed me that i was not in his
district and that he would foward my email to.I
sure you are quite busy. Did you receive the email from Senator Sanard.
I would appreciate some kind of respond from you.If you did not receive the information from Senator Sanard about my problem whenever I hear from you I will like to explain my concern. I am a ww2 vetern who has paid my taxes every single year up ontil 2006 I ran into a problem dealing special circumstances.Please respond. I will look for your replay,
sibcerely jerry grandenettipanel6@gmail.com
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About the Author

LIBN columnist Martin Cantor is director of the Long Island Center for Socio-Economic Policy and a former Suffolk County economic development commissioner. He can be reached at EcoDev1@aol.com.